Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: don't account memmap on failure

Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08T18:55:17Z

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 2:12 PM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 08.08.24 17:42, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> > When in alloc_vmemmap_page_list() memmap is failed to allocate, do
> > not account, the memory is going to be release at the function exit.
>
> I would write it as
>
> "When we fail to allocate the mmemmap in alloc_vmemmap_page_list(), do
> not account any already-allocated pages: we're going to free all them
> before we return from the function."
>

Will change.

> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Thank you,
Pasha

>
> >
> > Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
> > Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> > ---
> > mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 5 +----
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > index fa83a7b38199..70027869d844 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > @@ -392,13 +392,10 @@ static int alloc_vmemmap_page_list(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> > page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, 0);
> > - if (!page) {
> > - mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, i);
> > + if (!page)
> > goto out;
> > - }
> > list_add(&page->lru, list);
> > }
> > -
> > mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, nr_pages);
> >
> > return 0;
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David / dhildenb
>